Language and terminology, the linguistics, had been totally perverted or at least confused. Fascism was called 'democracy'. Terms like 'socialism' and 'communism' were determinedly and constantly smeared.
What a world it used to be!
But no more: everything has totally changed.
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In Kashmir, I told my friends about the new and powerful media; that of Latin America, in Russia, in China, and Iran. It is not 'alternative', anymore. In a way it is 'mainstream', because in many parts of the world, exposing the crimes committed by the West, by its Empire and by its 'client states' like India, Indonesia, Kenya, Rwanda or Uganda, has become something that is considered absolutely natural, something that is to be expected and demanded by the people.
But above all, I explained that just a few years ago, maybe just one decade back, I only had a few close people like Noam Chomsky, 'covering my back'. Now there are many, from all classes, professions and continents!
One of the greatest international lawyers, Chris Black from Toronto, Canada, and a former World Bank economist, Peter Koenig, are now writing a book with me. Both understood and turned around to confront fascism. Both are overflowing with practical knowledge, because they used to work 'inside the system'.
Just two months ago I was invited to Eritrea, a great and brave African country that is fighting the direct intimidation and embargos of the Empire. The lady who hosted me, used to work in South Sudan, for the World Bank. She got so disgusted with what she was expected to do -- destroying her fellow African people -- that she left her highly paid job, just a year ago, in order to set up her own progressive organization, defending the Horn Of Africa. She set up its headquarters in the capital of her native Eritrea, Asmara. Since then she has been courageously fighting for her people, and for those in this totally abused and tortured part of the world.
I have met and worked with countless staff-members of the United Nations: educators and statisticians, academics, economists and other professionals. Some are just lamenting about how the dream of the "World Government" degenerated and gone to the dogs. But others are actively fighting, often behind the scene, breaking countless rules and regulations.
Some quit, unwilling to compromise.
I have to mention my deceased friend, Australian lawyer Michael Hourigan, a former UN genocide investigator from ICTR, who managed to identify those who shot down the airplane carrying the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, in 1994. He was forced to fly to The Hague, and literally ordered to shut up, by a high UN official. That was because all the evidence was pointing at the Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his Tutsi army, RPF. Kagame has been a brutal Western implant, responsible for millions of dead people in the plundered Democratic Republic of Congo.
The shooting down of the Presidential 'Falcon' jet triggered the epic 1994 violence, and terrible inter-tribal bloodletting.
Michael Hourigan resigned, in disgust, and returned to his native Adelaide in Australia. He passed the evidence on to me, during the filming of my feature documentary, "Rwanda Gambit".
Another horror story I was asked to tell to the world, was by Ms. Masako Yonekawa, a former UNHCR head in Goma, perhaps the most tattered and terrorized part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and of Africa in general.
Ms. Yonekawa resigned from the UN, and then went on record, testifying in my film, about the brutality of the RPF, about the Western support for the RPF, and about the UN staff, particularly the Indian peacekeepers, who had been involved in the smuggling of raw materials from the DRC.
There were others, many others, who managed to identify the genocide in the DR Congo, particularly those UN staff members who wrote and consequently 'leaked' the reports (including the 'Mapping Report') on the involvement of both Rwanda and Uganda in the genocide in Goma and other parts of the DRC.
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